Myeong Lee, PhD

Assistant Professor

Volgenau School of Engineering

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Key Interests:

Community Informatics, Socio-Technical Systems, Urban Computing, Information Inequality, Human-Computer Interaction, Organizational Ecology

Education:

PhD, Information Studies, University of Maryland at College Park

Research Focus

My research interests are understanding the dynamics of local communities, hyperlocal groups, and information inequality. For my research program, I develop and leverage social theories and computational methods. I also design and implement systems that demonstrate the geographically-embedded structures of information and associated issues.

Current Projects

■ Making Information Deserts Visible: Computational Models, Disparities in Civic Technology Use, and Urban Decision Making (NSF CHS #1816763): This project aims to analyze Boston’s 311 data to identify biases embedded in the civic data by making use of a theory of local information landscapes. a tool for visualizing the information deserts of civic issues will be developed for helping with informed decision-making and civic technology design.

■ Library Knowledge Extensions (KNEXT): Data Analytics to Support Innovation Communities (IMLS #LG-71-17-0124-17): This project aims to understand how local businesses navigate through complex information landscapes for their success and how local information institutions (e.g., libraries) can help improve their information access. A web-based tool that connects information users and providers will be developed.

■ Understanding Urban Mobility During COVID-19: This research is a collaborative project with BigDyL Lab at Yonsei University’s Department of Artificial Intelligence, GMU’s Community Informatics Lab, and a start-up in South Korea to analyze high-resolution sensory data captured by hundreds of taxis deployed in South Korea’s metropolitan cities. Using this data, the team is working to understand urban mobility during COVID-19.

Select Publications

M. Lee & B.S. Butler. Cultural activity diversity and community characteristics: an exploratory study. In iConference 2020 proceedings, LNCS, Borås, Sweden. 32-49 (2020).

M. Lee & B.S. Butler. How are information deserts created? A theory of local information landscapes. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 70(2), 101-119 (2019).

G. McKenzie, et al. Identifying urban neighborhood names through user-contributed online property listings. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 7(10). 388. MPDI. (2018).

 

College:

Volgenau School of Engineering

Contact Myeong :

Email: mlee89@gmu.edu

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